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Revotron writes “Readers of Entertainment Weekly might be shocked to find their magazine is a good bit heavier than normal this week. US-based broadcaster CW placed an ad in Entertainment Weekly which uses a fully-functional 3G Android device, a T-Mobile SIM card, and a specialized app to display short video advertisements along with the CW Twitter feed. Writers at Mashable were willing to geek out with a Swiss Army knife and a video camera to give us all the gory details as they tore it down piece-by-piece to discover the inner workings of CW’s new ad.”

After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web – Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web – plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more.

Trying to keep up with every threat to privacy online is a never-ending race on the hamster wheel. For that reason, when someone jumps up and down and tells us to pay close attention to the latest threat, many of us shrug our shoulders because we just don’t have the time to learn about each and every major privacy threat in the tech new cycle. To help us cut through the overwhelming amount of information we’ve already received about SOPA, the Stop Internet Piracy Act, the team at AmericanCensorship.org brings us this simple to follow infographic that very clearly details the risks of SOPA.

In this corner, veteran marketing tool, Facebook brand pages. In the other corner, newcomer to the social space, Google+ brand pages. Richard takes a hard look at both offerings by checking out the brand pages of luxury auto makers BMW and Mercedes-Benz on each.

After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web – Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web – plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more.

Journalism in Mexico is dangerous. More than a dozen men and women who report on the drug cartel, Las Zetas, have been savagely murdered. The most recent casualty of this war is Rascatripas. His body, hung from the same overpass as last month’s double murder of journalists, was adorned with a sign that said, in Spanish, “This happened to me for not understanding that I shouldn’t report on the social networks.”

IRC has some annoyances, but all in all, it’s a darn fine protocol that has served us well for years. Leah Culver and Jori Lallo, both of Convore, have created Grove which promises to remove some of the IRC hurdles, like hosting, so that we can continue to use this open protocol with ease.

Only a few days left before our ReadWriteWeb worldwide technology meetup on November 15! There are already some amazing meetups planned in Tokyo, Seoul, Vladivostok, Russia, Amsterdam, New Zealand, Boston, MA, St. Louis, MO, Washington, DC and more. Don’t see your city listed? Add it in one click!

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After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web – Android, Mobile and Google – plus highlights from our six channels. Read on for more.

Ashton Kutcher, star of TV and Twitter, was at TED this last week when a surprising tweet popped up in his stream: “Ashton, you’ve been Punk’d. This account is not secure. Dude, where’s my SSL?” Laugh all you want – when was the last time you double checked to see if you were using https://twitter.com, Twitter’s secure URL?

After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web – mobile, location, app stores – plus highlights from our six channels. Read on for more.

As well as enabling you to read ReadWriteWeb while on the go or lying on the couch, we’ve made it easy to share ReadWriteWeb posts directly from your iPhone, on Twitter and Facebook using the official ReadWriteWeb iPhone app. You can also follow the RWW team on Twitter, directly from the app. We invite you to download it now from iTunes.

VoxPop’s games, which are often ad-supported, are based on opinions and predictions on topics and current events (like the Oscars or the Grammy awards). Games range from an E! Online game on what celebrity wore the best outfit to an awards show to picking brackets for March Madness at NCAA.com. VoxPop’s technology also turns pop culture games into free, shareable widgets for anyone to post on a blog, social networking site or website. Users can even create a â€œgame lobbyâ€ of sorts by adding multiple games to a page.

LA Weekly is reporting that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple by a California resident. Donald LeBufn is angry that the glass casing of his new iPhone 4 broke after his daughter accidentally dropped it from a height of roughly 3 feet while sending a text message.

LeBufn claims that Apple is aware that iPhone 4â€™s design is defective but has failed to warn users that normal use could result in a broken phone.

LA Weekly reports:

Apparently fed up and pissed off, California resident Donald LeBuhn filed a class action lawsuit earlier this week in L.A. County against Apple, claiming the company knows about the design flaw and refuses to warn consumers that “normal” use leads essentially to a broken phone.According to his lawsuit, first reported by Courthouse News Service, LeBuhn threw down $252 in September for a new iPhone 4, but three weeks later the glass broke when his daughter accidentally dropped it approximately three feet to the ground while sending a text message.He previously owned a 3GS version of the iPhone and claims the glass did not break when accidentally dropped from similar heights.

Apple claims that the glass used in iPhone 4 is the same type of glass used in the windshields of helicopters and high-speed trains, which has been chemically strengthened to be 20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic that makes it ultradurable and more scratch resistant than ever.

According to LeBufn these claims are misleading and wants Apple to refund the purchase price of the iPhone 4 to all customers in the class action lawsuit and also reimburse repair fees that theyâ€™ve paid.